Christian Convey wrote:
Yeah, but I doubt Window's support for DRM is closely related to the relative ease with which Windows users can introduce and use new hardware.
Actually, it is. The whole issue is the ease of use on using the system. Having the machine tell me "Nono, be a good boy and don't use that!" is counter to that goal. :P
And it really is the case that I've never happened to see a blue screen of death on my XP system. I agree that old versions of Windows had this problem. But I'm just comparing the most recent versions of Windows and Linux. (XP vs. Sarge/2.6.9/udev)
Freedom to swap out my hardware whenever I want as often as I want only occurs on one of those OSs. That's the only consideration that really matters.
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